The Moment: Men’s cross-country 10 straight championships.

When it happened: 2003-12.

How it happened: Led by the third-place finish of sophomore Dan Flynn, of Blairstown, New Jersey, Penn College, under coach Mike Paulhamus, outdistanced Penn State Greater Allegheny, 32-53, on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, for its 10th straight conference championship and eighth in the Penn State University Athletic Conference. In Paulhamus’ second season, Penn College won Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association and Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference crowns in fall 2001. The Wildcats finished second in the PCAA the following year, before stringing together 10 straight: PCAA and EPCC in 2003; PCAA, EPCC and Commonwealth Campus Athletic Conference in 2004; and then Penn State University Athletic Conference crowns from 2005 through 2012. In addition to those championship seasons, the Wildcats finished second in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association national championships in 2009. Paulhamus was inducted into the Penn College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.

Quotable: “When we started out it was just two-year eligibility, and I would lose somebody and the next season I would pick somebody up. When we went to the four-year program it was nice that I could keep some of the talented kids around for four years,” Paulhamus said. “I enjoyed every season. Some years I had a lot of kids and some years I didn’t have very many kids but we just seemed to be able to make it work.

“With (then-athletic director) Mike Stanzione’s help, we took the Penn College cross-country team from being a (Penn State) satellite school and just competing against other satellite schools and we started intertwining Division III and sometimes a Division II schools (into the schedule). … We showed that we had kids that could compete and be competitive.

“The highlight was that national runner-up team. It all clicked when we went to that meet in Concord, New Hampshire. They did a pre-meet ranking and we were supposed to finish sixth or seventh, and with a little hard work by my No. 4 and No. 5 runners running their butts off, it helped us get a second-place finish. We still talk about that when we get together.”